Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...usual lavish numbers-including a reproduction of a Billy Rose Aquacade -staged with a satiric glint by Director Herbert Ross (The Last of Sheila). But the best tune in the show is a ballad (If I Love Again), delivered quietly by Streisand as she stands with a song sheet over a piano. The writers have also supplied a fair number of punchy Broadway wisecracks. Says Caan, proposing to Streisand as he flashes a hulking ring: "I paid retail...
...torture. Imagine being imprisoned for life inside one of those actively gloomy cabarets where the only entertainment is French popular music. Whatever the glories of France, popular music was never among them. Whether ballad or brassy show-stopper or (deliver us) rock 'n' roll, every French pop song sounds as if it is being pulled out of an accordion. Those who cannot imagine what the ordeal might be like but are still curious should check out Jacques Brel. Others might well beware...
...Populist ended his appeal for support with a quote from an old Woodie Guthrie song. "This land this land is my land...
...said that the "Chilean Song" movement was linked to a resurgence of folk art under Allende...
...road to it was not easy. Sonny wrote the song that became their first record-Baby Don't Go-for her alone. "But she was too frightened to perform by herself, so I did the harmony just to be with her." Baby was a modest hit. In 1965 he wrote the softly rocking I Got You Babe, which turned out to be an immodest hit-some 4 million copies sold-and Sonny and Cher found themselves playing the big rock concerts. It looked as if the mansion was within reach...